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"The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it."
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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."
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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."
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"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."
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"I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists..."
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"When I am in nature, my heart dances with butterflies and sings along with flowers."
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"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"
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"Nature is a better scientist than any human can ever be."
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"When we reconnect with nature, we will be restore ourselves."
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"I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers."
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"The sea never dries for it has so many friends."
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"If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro."
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"We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had ever done before. So all of those were firsts. Test pilots truly love firsts."
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"When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true."
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"Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty."
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"I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us."
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"I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle."
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"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."
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"The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space."
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"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."
Earth
"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."
Earth
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